Adderbox76

I hope you're right. But my trust level for corporations is somewhere between 0 and 0.1

TypeScript is the new DOC format.

Create a language/format. Spend all of your effort making it ubiquitous until it becomes the default "standard" in the workplace. Then charge a metric fuck-tonne for the "official" software that makes use of it.

It's how Office became their cash cow. They create the proprietary doc format, get everyone using it, and once it's embedded in the workplace, charge exorbitantly for the software that uses it.

Once they get everyone using TS as a new industry standard, they'll find a way to make people have to pay for it. Mark my words.

Silent Hunter III

Sink some tonnage.

He's counting on NATO continuing to take the "let's just sanction him" approach. He's essentially hoping they're bluffing while he tries to get the gang back together. (USSR)

How about no.

Veganism isn't like Celiac or life threatening allergies. It's literally a personal choice. A private business is under no obligation to cater to that.

Where government involvement begins and ends in terms of private business is (imo) in mandating no discrimination against things that individuals have no choice about (Gender, sexuality, race, age, etc)

But choices are a different beast. The government has no business being involved in that.

If a Vegan restaurant would do well in that area, someone would open it. If a restaurant does well with their vegan options, they keep them, if they don't do well, they remove them. It's called supply and demand.

So many good answers already that I agree with. So I'll add James Ellroy and Clive Barker

For Ellroy, the entire LA Quartet remains a pivotal sea change in "hard boiled" crime fiction; taking a lot of the conventions created by the likes of Hammett and Chandler and updating them for a modern audience.

Barker is a more personal choice. But his writing is just so evocative and descriptive that I couldn't NOT mention him. Imajica literally changed my literary life, with Weaveworld being (in my opinion) a less dense, more reader friendly version of Imajica.

The Island of the Day Before was my first introduction and remains one of my favorites.

You begin by classifying anyone you don't know as "the others"... They're not like you. They don't share your values. Their ways are weird.

If you use that language with your citizens long enough, it slowly seeps in that those people aren't really people at all. Eventually, killing them isn't killing humans, it's just getting rid of vermin; poisoning rats or bug-bombing your home.

You see politicians doing it every day. They're not humans...they're "illegals", is probably the most modern example. But it's insidious, and pervasive. Slowly and deliberately inuring a populous to greater and larger acts of inhumanity.

The short answer is that it doesn't just happen. It's a culmination of a process that ends with one group of people completely rejected the very humanity of another group. After that, who cares if they die.

I have a mastiff. Truly clean will never be a thing again.

As a Canadian, I still find it shocking that people don't take their shoes off inside. That's just gross.

It's the most layered joke I've ever come up with. Pretty proud of it, ngl.

Because most people don't recognize a fundamental difference between capital "C" capitalism (the economic principal of supply and demand. and "venture capitalism" which is about speculating on a business' future based on what essentially amounts to a magic 8 ball.